Jedo’s Unknown

Graphic Medicine Comic (2020): a comic illustrating my experience with my grandfather’s cancer diagnosis, discussing the cultural and generational shifts related to cancer diagnosis disclosure.

Also published as part of Mizna’s Summer 2021 publication.

Media: Procreate

Process Work

Ideation

The idea for this comic came naturally as a way to understand the feelings I had surrounding my grandfather’s death due to lung cancer in October 2019. I experimented with different illustration styles (traditional vs digital, greyscale vs color) and decided on a simplified complimentary color palette (muted blue and yellow).

Thumbnails

Rough outlines of each page (text and illustration content and placement) were created for each page. This helped clarify the overall narrative arc and how the two page spread would impact the layout.